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My first hardware build. An ESP32 driving a WS2812B addressable RGB strip, lighting individual pixels and cycling them through colours on a timer - the starting point for getting FastLED talking to the panel before doing anything more interesting with it. The ESP32 is a custom board made by someone at DoES Liverpool with the LED connector built in, so 5V, ground and data all come off a single plug. Data sits on GPIO5 and brightness is capped at 50/255. It started out as a sound-reactive build, but the board's microphone turned out to be digital and I ran out of time on the digital-to-analogue side, so that path is still sat commented out in main.ino.
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